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AdventureMysteryCrime

Nabonga

- A WHITE GIRL RULES THE JUNGLE...HER STRENGTH OF POWER WAS "NABONGA!"

When a treasure hunter seeks a downed airplane in the jungles of Africa, he encounters one of the passenger's young daughter, now fully grown, and with a gorilla protector.

Release Date : 1944-01-25

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : PRC

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles : Nabonga Gorilla

Cast

Buster Crabbe

Character Name : Ray Gorman

Original Name : Buster Crabbe

Gender : Male

Fifi D'Orsay

Character Name : Marie

Original Name : Fifi D'Orsay

Gender : Female

Barton MacLane

Character Name : Carl Hurst

Original Name : Barton MacLane

Gender : Male

Julie London

Character Name : Doreen Stockwell

Original Name : Julie London

Gender : Female

Bryant Washburn

Character Name : Hunter

Original Name : Bryant Washburn

Gender : Male

Herbert Rawlinson

Character Name : T.F. Stockwell

Original Name : Herbert Rawlinson

Gender : Male

Jackie Newfield

Character Name : Doreen Stockwell als Kind

Original Name : Jackie Newfield

Gender : Female

Ray Corrigan

Character Name : Nabonga der Gorilla

Original Name : Ray Corrigan

Gender : Male

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-06-30

This film has quite a sincere underlying message - conveying a remarkably (for the time) enlightened mid-WWII message on racial equality. It is just let down by the poor execution - not least from a dreadfully flat Buster Crabbe as "Ray" and the man in gorilla suit. When an hunter attempts to track down a case of jewels that were on a downed aircraft many years earlier over the dense African jungle, he discovers that they are now in the possession of Julie London - "Doreen" (aka "White Witch"), who is the daughter of the long dead thief. She's none to keen on surrendering her jewels and as he begins to fall for her, his friend Barton MacLane ("Carl) appears on the scene intent on securing the treasure for himself and the two men clash. It's odd to see Crabbe in a role where he isn't whiter than white, and for a while the story is quite engaging but all too quickly the effects of the sound-stage cheese plants and ropey lighting alongside a really prosaic script just draw more attention to "Crash" Corrigan - and his costume; never a good thing. It's not awful, and it's quite decently paced, but all just too predictably mundane to be memorable.